Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Chapter 110
The Closing of the Southern
Field
(The assertion has been widely made that the
Testimonies state that our work will first be closed
in the South. I think this is not true. No one whom I
have requested to produce the reference has been
able to find it. None of Sister White's helpers know
of it. When I was at Sister White's home in 1913, I
made a careful search of all the Testimonies on the
Southern work, and failed to find this statement.
Without saying who was first responsible for it, I
think I am correct in ascribing the belief to a
careless reading of a statement made by Sister
White at the General Conference of 1901, in Battle
Creek, Mich., a statement to be found on page 482
of the General Conference Bulletin of that year. I
give here a passage containing this statement,
which I have underscored. . A. W. S.)
I know not how to describe the way in which
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